:00:06. > :00:10.Allowing gay marriage in England and Wales. MPs vote on the plans
:00:10. > :00:17.today. Supporters say it's the right time and the right thing to
:00:17. > :00:20.do. Opponents say no-one has the right to redefine marriage. As MPs
:00:20. > :00:23.begin the debate, more than 100 Tories say they'll vote against the
:00:23. > :00:28.change. Senior ministers are making final attempts to persuade them to
:00:28. > :00:31.support the legislation. The breakdown of a marriage. A
:00:31. > :00:34.court hears that Chris Huhne's ex- wife was looking for revenge when
:00:34. > :00:37.she told newspapers about his speeding offence.
:00:37. > :00:40.Water bills in England and Wales are to rise by around 3.5% from
:00:41. > :00:46.April. Scotland's "Independence Day". It's
:00:46. > :00:49.March 2016 if the country votes yes in the referendum.
:00:49. > :00:54.Heavy snow returns to large parts of the UK as the freezing
:00:54. > :00:57.temperatures and strong winds return.
:00:57. > :01:04.Too old to carry on says 23-year- old Rebecca Adlington as the double
:01:04. > :01:11.Olympic champion says she's retiring. The goal that won the
:01:11. > :01:14.gold in London was 15. 23 does not quite compare -- other goal. Later
:01:14. > :01:17.on BBC London: Calls for a new high speed rail line under the capital
:01:17. > :01:27.to link the south west to the north east. Plus, the North London
:01:27. > :01:34.
:01:34. > :01:37.residents running their own library Good afternoon and welcome to the
:01:37. > :01:41.BBC News at One. MPs have begun debating whether to
:01:41. > :01:46.introduce gay marriage in England and Wales. A vote will take place
:01:46. > :01:48.this evening. The Commons is expected to vote in favour of the
:01:48. > :01:52.legislation, but it's thought more than 100 Conservative MPs could
:01:52. > :02:01.vote against the plans on what they say are moral and religious grounds.
:02:02. > :02:06.Here's our political correspondent, A marriage between a man and a
:02:06. > :02:11.woman only is about to change. The coalition wanted to be open to all,
:02:11. > :02:15.gay or straight. Supporters say it is the final step towards equality.
:02:15. > :02:19.The coalition plans to allow same- sex marriage in England and Wales
:02:19. > :02:23.and it will no longer be exclusively Civil partnerships. The
:02:23. > :02:27.Church of England and the Church in Wales are exempt, and other
:02:27. > :02:31.religious organisations can opt in. Some of this lot are not willing to
:02:31. > :02:35.say that they will. Cabinet ministers met this morning knowing
:02:35. > :02:38.that law will almost certainly pass, but it has been a huge headache for
:02:38. > :02:44.the Prime Minister because it has split his Conservatives write down
:02:44. > :02:47.the middle. A Home Secretary supports the change. She was part
:02:48. > :02:50.of a last-minute bid to persuade Tory doubters. In a joint letter to
:02:50. > :03:00.the Daily Telegraph with the Chancellor and the Foreign
:03:00. > :03:07.
:03:07. > :03:11.This issue, extending marriage to gay couples as another part of
:03:11. > :03:16.making sure that Britain is a good place to live, a good place to
:03:17. > :03:21.bring up children and to be a citizen. If they contravene the
:03:21. > :03:26.laws of nature, it contravenes the law of God. Out side Parliament
:03:26. > :03:29.there were few small process -- protest, but not as much as you
:03:29. > :03:33.might expect given the weight the issue has dominated Tory circles
:03:33. > :03:36.for months. David Cameron thinks this is the right thing to do and
:03:36. > :03:40.thinks it will strengthen the Institute of marriage, something
:03:40. > :03:43.Conservatives should be all four. But there is also the electoral
:03:43. > :03:47.calculation, because this is his latest effort to modernise the
:03:47. > :03:51.Conservative Party and try to win at new supporters. At the there is
:03:51. > :03:55.no prospect of a gay marriage at Westminster Abbey. The Church of
:03:55. > :04:02.England has been exec -- exempted, as has the Church in Wales, but
:04:02. > :04:06.some people fear a step too far. same-sex marriage is not just about
:04:06. > :04:10.extending a fundamental institution, it is about fundamentally rewriting,
:04:10. > :04:16.the complementary union of a man and woman. M P's have started
:04:16. > :04:20.debating whether to change the law -- MPs. I beg to move that the
:04:20. > :04:23.marriage and same-sex couples will be read a second time. They will
:04:23. > :04:26.vote this evening and is sure to go through with Liberal-Democrats and
:04:27. > :04:33.Labour backing it, but half of his MPs refuse to support the Prime
:04:33. > :04:35.Well, as we just heard, the issue of same sex marriage has revealed
:04:35. > :04:37.deep divisions within the Conservatives. It's also proving
:04:37. > :04:43.controversial at grass roots level as our political correspondent,
:04:43. > :04:46.Louise Stewart, has been finding out in Croydon. Not all
:04:46. > :04:49.Conservatives on board with the government plan to introduce same-
:04:50. > :04:55.sex marriage. In fact the split within the party has been brought
:04:55. > :04:59.into sharp focus in London's largest borough, Croydon. Croydon
:04:59. > :05:03.Central is a marginal seat, and the MP here knows he risks alienating
:05:03. > :05:08.core voters, but will be backing the Bill. The right thing for
:05:08. > :05:11.politicians to do is listen to what people say and do what we can to le
:05:11. > :05:18.-- address legitimate concerns, but we cannot be guided by how many
:05:18. > :05:21.people we can get to vote for us. By oath of Croydon's Conservative
:05:21. > :05:26.MPs back the Bill -- both of them. But not everyone in the party
:05:26. > :05:29.locally agrees with them and it is proving to be a divisive issue.
:05:29. > :05:33.David Cameron says he passionately believes unequal marriage, but at
:05:33. > :05:37.this Conservative Club in Croydon, members say that some activists
:05:37. > :05:43.have deserted the party over the issue and warned it could damage
:05:43. > :05:47.electoral prospects in the future. I don't believe in it in any way,
:05:47. > :05:51.shape or form, based on my Christian belief. I do not agree
:05:51. > :05:56.with gay marriage at all. profession is a photographer. I do
:05:56. > :05:59.a lot of possible partnerships, and I think that is as far as it can go.
:05:59. > :06:03.The churches for people to have a family, the man and a woman, and
:06:03. > :06:07.that should be the marriage. Conservative MPs have been given a
:06:07. > :06:10.free vote on the bill, but that has not been enough to prevent a deep
:06:11. > :06:14.rift splitting the party down the middle. Downing Street hopes that
:06:14. > :06:17.the row will be forgotten by the time of the next general election,
:06:17. > :06:25.but others fear that the division could cost the party deer at the
:06:26. > :06:31.polls. Our Political Correspondent Norman Smith is in Westminster. How
:06:31. > :06:35.difficult could it be for the Prime Minister? The great paradoxes that
:06:35. > :06:39.David Cameron could emerge as a winner and loser -- ease that. He
:06:39. > :06:42.will almost certainly win tonight's vote because he can count on the
:06:42. > :06:45.overwhelming support of Labour and Liberal Democrat MPs, and when the
:06:45. > :06:49.measure goes to the Lords in the week it will probably be approved
:06:49. > :06:54.as well. But a loser because he is likely to lose the support on this
:06:54. > :06:57.issue of up to half of his parliamentary party. Why? Because
:06:57. > :07:01.for many Tories this is an issue of principle on which they will not
:07:01. > :07:06.budge, which is why they have been immune to the appeals of senior
:07:06. > :07:11.Cabinet ministers. Others have also commanded huge pressure from the
:07:11. > :07:15.local parties. The great unknown is whether this will be a temporary
:07:15. > :07:19.hiatus or cause more permanent damage to Mr Cameron's leadership.
:07:19. > :07:24.Whether some Tory MPs will be so angry it will spill over into other
:07:24. > :07:28.policy areas and lead to broader disenchantment with the leadership,
:07:28. > :07:33.or, as those around Mr Cameron hope, that this will be a temporary
:07:34. > :07:37.hiatus. But in time, the party will become reconciled to the idea of
:07:37. > :07:40.same-sex marriage, and in the same way as over similar contentious
:07:40. > :07:44.issues, for example, civil partnerships and lowering the age
:07:44. > :07:52.of consent, although at the time they were hugely divisive in the
:07:52. > :07:55.party, over time they became reconciled to those moves.
:07:55. > :08:05.digital viewers can follow the debate in the House of Commons on
:08:05. > :08:06.
:08:06. > :08:09.Former minister Chris Huhne's ex- wife set out to bring him down when
:08:09. > :08:12.she told newspapers that she had taken his speeding points a decade
:08:12. > :08:15.ago. That's what a jury has been hearing today. Vicky Pryce is
:08:15. > :08:17.standing trial at Southwark Crown Court for perverting the course of
:08:17. > :08:23.justice. She denies the charge. Our Home Affairs Correspondent Tom
:08:23. > :08:27.Symonds is at the Court. Yesterday Chris Huhne pleaded guilty to
:08:27. > :08:30.passing the points to his wife, and today she was being prosecuted for
:08:30. > :08:35.accepting them, something the prosecution said could only happen
:08:35. > :08:40.if both sides in the arrangement where prepare -- were prepared to
:08:40. > :08:43.play ball. It came to light in 2011 when it is alleged Vicky Pryce went
:08:43. > :08:47.to newspapers when Chris Huhne was having an affair. The court heard
:08:47. > :08:50.she wanted revenge. There were a series of e-mails between her and
:08:50. > :08:56.Isabel Oakeshott, Sunday Times journalist, in which Vicky Pryce
:08:56. > :08:59.said she wanted to nail him more than ever. She was talking about
:08:59. > :09:04.revealing a story saying she had been asked to take the speeding
:09:04. > :09:09.points. We also heard today that a series of phone calls made between
:09:09. > :09:13.Vicky Pryce and Chris Huhne, recorded by Vicky Pryce and Isabel
:09:13. > :09:17.boat shot, in which Vicky Pryce furiously tries to get her husband
:09:17. > :09:23.to admit that he told her to take the points. Chris Huhne very calmly
:09:23. > :09:26.says he does not, but we know now that he did, and he admitted that.
:09:26. > :09:29.Another point is that Isabel Oakeshott told Vicky Pryce but
:09:29. > :09:34.there was a minor risk that she could be prosecuted if she revealed
:09:34. > :09:38.she had accepted the points. A risk that we now know to have come true,
:09:38. > :09:42.because she is now being prosecuted for exactly that. She accepts she
:09:42. > :09:46.took the points but claimed she was coerced into doing so by a husband.
:09:46. > :09:50.The prosecution says she will claim that she had no choice, and the
:09:50. > :09:56.prosecution say should the jury will have to decide if she is the
:09:56. > :10:00.kind of woman that would have Water and sewerage bills in England
:10:00. > :10:03.and Wales will rise by an average of 3.5% over the next year. The new
:10:03. > :10:06.charges will vary depending on your supplier, but there will be around
:10:06. > :10:09.�13 a year extra to pay from April bringing average bills to almost
:10:09. > :10:11.�400 a year. The regulator, OFWAT, says the extra money will go
:10:11. > :10:21.towards a multi-billion pound investment programme. Our Business
:10:21. > :10:23.
:10:23. > :10:27.And when it comes to water, we don't have any choice who delivers
:10:27. > :10:32.the vital supply is. The good news is that prices aren't going up as
:10:32. > :10:38.fast as last year, but they are still rising. The average bill is
:10:38. > :10:43.forecast to increase by 3.5 % in April. That is half a % above
:10:43. > :10:49.November's inflation figure. That is an extra �13 people will have to
:10:49. > :10:55.splash out every year. Bills will vary, depending on the water
:10:55. > :10:58.company and the level investment they need to make. Here is why
:10:58. > :11:06.Southern Water has one of the highest price rises of just over
:11:06. > :11:10.five %. This is one of the biggest projects in the water industry.
:11:10. > :11:15.has just finished building a sewage treatment plant near Brighton.
:11:15. > :11:19.project alone is �300 million and is part of a 1.8 billion pound
:11:19. > :11:22.programme over five years. Those are vast sums of money that you
:11:22. > :11:25.simply have to finance by going into the capital markets and
:11:25. > :11:31.borrowing money. Bills will increase to cover the interest on
:11:31. > :11:36.loans. Companies can only raise prices by what has been previously
:11:36. > :11:41.agreed with the regulator. Taking into account predicted levels of
:11:41. > :11:47.inflation. But one consumer group says because inflation is lower
:11:47. > :11:50.than expected, some firms are making higher profits. We know that
:11:50. > :11:53.the companies are actually performing very well financially,
:11:53. > :11:57.so we are saying to the companies, if you're going to put your prices
:11:57. > :12:00.up by the amount you are allowed, you need to make sure you are
:12:00. > :12:05.sharing the benefits of that with your customers. But the regulator
:12:05. > :12:10.says price rises could have been a lot worse. We have challenged hard
:12:10. > :12:17.on behalf of companies -- customers. Companies wanted the bills to go up
:12:17. > :12:22.by about 10 %. We said no, and we pay the bills broadly at inflation
:12:22. > :12:27.now. High bills are not welcome news, but the regulator says they
:12:27. > :12:30.will hope -- help to make sure suppliers do not run dry in future.
:12:30. > :12:33.A 65-year-old man has been arrested by detectives from Operation
:12:33. > :12:37.Yewtree, the Scotland Yard unit set up in the wake of the Jimmy Savile
:12:37. > :12:40.affair. He was arrested at an address in South London and has
:12:40. > :12:44.been taken into police custody. He is being questioned over
:12:44. > :12:47.allegations of sexual offences. Sales of wellingtons, tablet
:12:47. > :12:55.computers and smart phones helped boost retail sales last month,
:12:55. > :12:58.which grew at their fastest rate since December 2011. The British
:12:58. > :13:08.Retail Consortium says like-for- like sales for January were up 1.9%
:13:08. > :13:10.The Scottish Government has drawn up a timetable for independence if
:13:10. > :13:13.the country votes "yes" in the 2014 referendum. Under the plans,
:13:13. > :13:19.Independence Day for Scotland would be in March 2016 with the first
:13:19. > :13:26.elections to an independent Parliament held in May 2016. Our
:13:26. > :13:31.Scotland Correspondent Lorna Gordon is at Holyrood. So we have the
:13:31. > :13:36.timetable, but there is still a big question. Yes, it is the fact that
:13:36. > :13:40.the vote on whether or not Scotland leaves the union still has to take
:13:40. > :13:44.place. People living here in Scotland have to decide whether or
:13:44. > :13:50.not they want to leave the union, and what they want their
:13:50. > :13:56.constitutional future to be. These are plans to set out what would
:13:56. > :13:59.happen if a majority of people decided that they were in favour of
:14:00. > :14:04.independence. The Scottish government has described it as a
:14:04. > :14:11.transition timetable from a referendum to this so-called
:14:11. > :14:15.independence day in 20th March 16. They say it is an orderly and co-
:14:16. > :14:20.operative transition. They are inviting representatives of other
:14:20. > :14:26.parties and wider, civic Scotland to take part in negotiations if
:14:26. > :14:31.there were to be a Yes vote. That is Abedin if, because at the moment
:14:31. > :14:35.-- a big if, because at the moment the polls suggest Scotland is not
:14:35. > :14:39.in favour of independence. There is also the issue that if people voted
:14:39. > :14:45.in favour of independence it is a hugely ambitious timetable to go
:14:45. > :14:49.from bad vote in autumn of next year -- that voting autumn of next
:14:49. > :14:53.year to go to independence in their early 2016. Alex Salmond has been
:14:53. > :14:57.speaking today and he said, not so and it is in line with other
:14:57. > :15:00.international experience. Let's look at the international examples.
:15:00. > :15:06.30 countries have gone through the process of becoming independent
:15:06. > :15:09.after a referendum, and the average timescale between a referendum and
:15:09. > :15:13.independence was 15 months. We have allowed longer than that. If the
:15:13. > :15:19.other countries can do it, why not Scotland? Critics have been lining
:15:19. > :15:23.up to give their views on this idea today. The leader of the Liberal-
:15:23. > :15:28.Democrats in Scotland said the timetable is absurd. He says the
:15:28. > :15:33.SNP have hopelessly underestimated the scale and complexity of it and
:15:33. > :15:38.says they would have to negotiate or renegotiate 14,000 international
:15:38. > :15:42.treaties. The Scottish Secretary says that they are devoting their
:15:42. > :15:47.energies to the picture frame when they don't have a picture to put in
:15:47. > :15:51.it. They don't even have a date or a publicly announced the date of
:15:51. > :15:54.when the referendum will be. And Alastair Darling says it lacks
:15:54. > :16:00.credibility. There are too many issues that need to be discussed,
:16:00. > :16:04.pensions and welfare being just a couple of those issues. But Nicola
:16:04. > :16:13.Sturgeon from the SNP said this was the first in a number of papers,
:16:13. > :16:21.and that these issues will be dealt $:/STARTFEED. There is much more
:16:21. > :16:24.detail and analysis of this story on our website. Go to
:16:24. > :16:29.www.bbc.co.uk/Scotland's future. Our top story: MPs are debating
:16:29. > :16:33.controversial plans to allow same sex marriage in England and Wales.
:16:33. > :16:39.Coming up - resurrected from a car park grave, but where will King
:16:39. > :16:43.Richard III's final resting place On BBC London, Haringey council
:16:43. > :16:48.faces a High Court challenge over plans to make some of its poorest
:16:48. > :16:54.residents pay council tax. And once a battleship which escorted supply
:16:54. > :16:59.boats in the war, now The Wellington prepares to welcome
:16:59. > :17:03.visitors. They were known as the Magdalene
:17:03. > :17:06.laundries, Catholic-run workhouses run by nuns for more than 70 years.
:17:06. > :17:10.Thousands of single mothers and other women were put to work there
:17:10. > :17:13.in detention. Many suffered years of imprisonment and abuse. Today, a
:17:13. > :17:17.report is expected to reveal just how much the Irish Government knew
:17:17. > :17:24.about what went on and survivors are hoping for an apology. Chris
:17:24. > :17:27.Buckler is in Dublin for us now. Sophie, the Irish Government have
:17:27. > :17:31.always emphasised that the Magdalene Laundries were run by
:17:31. > :17:34.religious orders, effectively the Catholic Church. It's been said
:17:34. > :17:38.time and time again that the state must have known what was going on
:17:38. > :17:43.inside them. Some have gone further saying the state were in effect
:17:43. > :17:47.complicit in a period of shameful history.
:17:47. > :17:52.These buildings were known as laundries and workhouses. For those
:17:52. > :17:56.locked inside, they were prisons. Over a period of 70 years, the
:17:56. > :18:00.laundries were places for so-called fallen women or troubled girls
:18:00. > :18:04.taken into what was supposed to be Christian care. They were simply
:18:04. > :18:08.used. Forced to work having lost their freedom. You were a prisoner,
:18:08. > :18:12.worse than a prisoner. A prisoner had rights we didn't. My name was
:18:12. > :18:16.taken off me. I wasn't called Maureen after that, I was called
:18:16. > :18:21.Frances. If you didn't answer, they'd come down and box you to the
:18:21. > :18:25.side of your head. Your ears would be swoln and red. Some held in the
:18:25. > :18:28.laundries were single mothers, others girls judged to be at risk
:18:28. > :18:32.of promiscuity. Run by nuns, they were presented to the public as a
:18:32. > :18:36.place where they would learn values and the teachings of the Catholic
:18:36. > :18:39.Church. But it's the true morality of what happened here now under
:18:40. > :18:44.question. Today's report will examine exactly what was known by
:18:44. > :18:46.the authorities and ask to what extent the Irish state should be
:18:46. > :18:49.held responsible. They were not only sending in girls
:18:49. > :18:56.and women through the courts, through mother and baby homes, they
:18:56. > :19:00.were also ignoring the fact that they abused the women.
:19:01. > :19:03.laundries operated between the 20s and 90s, campaigners have been
:19:03. > :19:08.fighting for compensation for the victims still alive. But what's
:19:08. > :19:12.most important is the prospect of an official apology and an
:19:12. > :19:16.acknowledge by from the Irish Government of what took place
:19:16. > :19:20.behind these doors. Families want records of documents to be made
:19:21. > :19:25.public. Some still don't know why their relatives were taken to the
:19:25. > :19:30.laundries. She was effectively kidnapped in so far as she was
:19:30. > :19:34.driven by a Preece under false pretences into 20 years of
:19:34. > :19:38.effective slavery and incarceration. Many of the women held in the
:19:38. > :19:42.laundrys are now dead, some never had a chance to leave the
:19:42. > :19:44.institutions where they suffered. If there is an acknowledgement of
:19:45. > :19:49.the abuse, it's come decades too late.
:19:49. > :19:52.The report will be published in a couple of hours' time and relatives
:19:53. > :19:57.won't only be looking at what it says, but also at what the Irish
:19:57. > :20:02.Government says in response. One word is more important than other
:20:02. > :20:06.and it's "Sorry" they need that acknowledgement and the apology.
:20:06. > :20:10.A five-year-old boy held at gun point for a week in an underground
:20:10. > :20:14.bunker in America has been freed unharmed. His captor, a retired
:20:14. > :20:17.Vietnam War veteran abducted the boy from the school bus last
:20:17. > :20:22.Tuesday after shooting the driver dead. FBI agents finally sthormed
:20:22. > :20:26.the bunker yesterday, killing the 65-year-old man -- stormed. Jane
:20:26. > :20:30.Little reports from Washington. A seven-day stand-off came to an
:20:30. > :20:36.abrupt end when the FBI stormed an underground bunker here in rural
:20:36. > :20:41.Alabama. Officers raided the bunker and rescued the boy within seconds
:20:41. > :20:46.after negotiations with his captor, Jimmy Lee Dykes, broke down.
:20:46. > :20:50.Dykes was confirmed dead, though no details were given. The boy, known
:20:50. > :20:54.only as he than, was described as physically unharm and taken to a
:20:55. > :20:59.local hospital. Ethan's ordeal began last Tuesday
:20:59. > :21:04.when Dykes boarded his school bus and demanded two boys between the
:21:04. > :21:08.ages of six and eight. The driver, Chuck Poland, blocked
:21:08. > :21:14.his path and was shot dead. Dykes then grabbed Ethan. During the
:21:14. > :21:20.siege, negotiators kept talking to Dykes and he allowed them to pass
:21:20. > :21:23.toys, food and medicine through a haven't laition pipe. Ethan is said
:21:23. > :21:28.to have Asperger's Syndrome. Over the past 24 hours, our
:21:28. > :21:34.communications with the subject deteriorated and we were certainly
:21:34. > :21:39.concerned for the safety of the child. Vigils were held each day
:21:39. > :21:43.and night for him. Friends made birthday cards. It is his sixth
:21:43. > :21:49.birthday on Wednesday. And now, there's cause for
:21:49. > :21:53.celebration. She's been the golden girl of
:21:53. > :21:57.British swimming since her triumphs at the Beijing Olympics in 2008 but
:21:57. > :22:01.today, Rebecca Adlington announced she was retiring from competitive
:22:01. > :22:05.sport. She's only 23 but she says she just feels too old to compete
:22:05. > :22:10.with the younger generation of swimmers. This report from our
:22:10. > :22:16.sports correspondent, Tim Franks, contains flash photography.
:22:16. > :22:19.Rarely do people retire at the age of 23. Rare orstill is what this
:22:19. > :22:24.23-year-old has achieved. Rebecca Adlington's been the most
:22:24. > :22:27.successful British swimmer of the modern era. She's looking forward
:22:27. > :22:32.to an end to five in the morning starts and the exhausting embrace
:22:32. > :22:36.of the pool. I don't like the word "Retiring" but just ending my
:22:36. > :22:42.competitive career. It's just the right time. I've achieved
:22:42. > :22:45.everything that I ever hoped for and beyond, definitely.
:22:45. > :22:49.COMMENTATOR: It could be Adlington... She was just 19 when
:22:49. > :22:53.she took the first of two Olympic golds in Beijing. She was keen to
:22:53. > :22:58.stress hers was not a success that came from nowhere. Since the age of
:22:58. > :23:02.12, she'd endured a training regime which her coach described as brutal.
:23:02. > :23:07.That pain was repaid with that smile of joy and disbelief mirrored
:23:07. > :23:13.in the faces of mayor parents watching from home in the Midlands.
:23:13. > :23:18.The sport of swimming, we have had so much fun with as a family. Not
:23:18. > :23:23.just on holidays, with competing. We have chlorine running through
:23:23. > :23:27.the house and our veins. It's been our sport as a family. At the
:23:27. > :23:32.London Games, she secured double bronze, a feat all the more
:23:32. > :23:37.impressive given how thin British swimming's achievements were at the
:23:37. > :23:41.Games. Adlington herself has criticised the administrator's
:23:41. > :23:44.reluctance to listen to the people in the pool. It's the swimmers that
:23:44. > :23:49.have to stand on the block and perform. The whole sport is based
:23:49. > :23:53.on us and it's what we do and it's about just listening to all the
:23:53. > :23:58.athletes, like I said, and knowing what they need.
:23:58. > :24:06.Rebecca's career in the pool may be over, after a few short years, but
:24:06. > :24:10.her presence as a role model could last for decades to come.
:24:10. > :24:14.Now, he's been lying under a car park in Leicester for hundreds of
:24:14. > :24:19.years, but now King Richard III has re-emerged into the spotlight and
:24:19. > :24:23.sparked a rue over where heion buried. There are plans to bury him
:24:23. > :24:27.in Leicester Cathedral near where he was found but he grew up in
:24:27. > :24:36.Yorkshire and the council are writing to the Queen asking that he
:24:36. > :24:40.be buried at York Minster. Ed Thomas reports.
:24:40. > :24:43.The unveiling of a King. We knew where he was bury and from this
:24:43. > :24:49.reconstruction, was now know what Richard III might have looked like.
:24:49. > :24:53.But there is one more argument to settle - where will he finally be
:24:53. > :24:56.laid to rest? Richard III was a northern King... Richard III might
:24:56. > :25:02.have been Attuneed in Leicester, but here in York, a letter's been
:25:02. > :25:06.sent to the Queen, asking for their King to be returned.
:25:06. > :25:09.Richard III was an adopted Yorkshireman and had a special
:25:09. > :25:14.relationship with the City of York. This is the place where he should
:25:14. > :25:19.be buried in York Minster. argument goes on. Richard III met
:25:19. > :25:22.his wife in York and his son Edward is buried here. This place lives
:25:22. > :25:26.and breathes its history. York is confident of its past. Here, they
:25:26. > :25:32.say the signature of Richard III isn't to be found underneath the
:25:32. > :25:38.car park, but in its stone and mortar. He had his northern
:25:38. > :25:42.Coronation at York Minster. In 1484, he paid for building work here, his
:25:42. > :25:46.northern roots might be calling but the finders and keepers of the bone
:25:46. > :25:50.in Leicester aren't listening. think we've already established
:25:50. > :25:56.with the people of Leicester and here in the cathedral that we
:25:56. > :26:01.believe it would be wonderful if he was buried here. His remains have
:26:01. > :26:08.lain within the parish of St Martin Leicester for over 500 years, just
:26:08. > :26:14.a few yards from this church. The Yorkists face another problem.
:26:14. > :26:19.The exhume ace was only allowed as long as the body was reburied by
:26:19. > :26:24.June this year and in Leicester. People keep referring to a will,
:26:24. > :26:30.but I don't know that it really exists, so I don't think it's a
:26:30. > :26:37.valid claim. But York is not giving up. This once controversial King
:26:37. > :26:40.faces one last battle. Fresh snowfall and gale force winds
:26:40. > :26:43.are causing problems across large parts of the UK again weeks after
:26:43. > :26:46.severe weather led to school closures and transport problems.
:26:46. > :26:50.Dozens of schools have been closed again in parts of Northern Ireland
:26:50. > :26:54.and Scotland and some flights have been delayed at Belfast, Manchester
:26:54. > :26:57.and Leeds Bradford Airports. Judith Moritz reports.
:26:57. > :27:02.This crash near to the M62 in Huddersfield this morning happened
:27:02. > :27:08.after the cars skidded on ice. It caused long tail backs at the
:27:08. > :27:10.busiest time of day. The rush hour feels ironic on days
:27:10. > :27:14.like this. Everyone needs to be somewhere, but here in West
:27:14. > :27:19.Yorkshire, no-one was getting very far.
:27:19. > :27:23.Can't move. Tried to move the car but it's not going anywhere. I'm
:27:23. > :27:27.just stuck. Those on hand to help tried their best, though conditions
:27:27. > :27:32.were difficult. Really horrendous. Traffic on both
:27:32. > :27:36.sides getting stuck on the hill. Dangerous. Snow fell overnight and
:27:36. > :27:39.again this morning mostly on high ground like here in the Pennines.
:27:39. > :27:44.Mountain roads like this one between Huddersfield and Manchester
:27:44. > :27:50.are always first to be affected when the snow falls at this time of
:27:50. > :27:55.year. But with other Trans-Pennine routes like the Woodhead and Snake
:27:55. > :27:58.Pass shut this morning, it's put extra pressure on the motorways. In
:27:58. > :28:02.Sheffield, bus services were suspended earlier this morning.
:28:02. > :28:06.Some are now running, but there's severe disruption to many routes.
:28:06. > :28:10.In the Peak District on the outskirts of Stockport, the roads
:28:10. > :28:14.were particularly icy. In Scotland, on the M77, there were
:28:14. > :28:19.long tail backs whilst more than 20 schools in Dumfries and Galloway
:28:19. > :28:22.have closed. In Northern Ireland, there's also been disruption around
:28:22. > :28:27.Belfast with some schools closing and some airport delays. Across the
:28:27. > :28:33.UK, the weather isn't forecast to be as severe as it has previously
:28:33. > :28:36.but widespread ice is a possibility. Let's go straight to the weather
:28:36. > :28:42.Let's go straight to the weather with Jay. Is it going to last?
:28:42. > :28:45.There is some pretty cold air out there. Some will come down this
:28:45. > :28:53.afternoon in the form of big wintry showers and strong winds on top of
:28:53. > :28:57.that to contend with as well. This is what we have seen so far today.
:28:57. > :29:01.Scotland and Northern Ireland have a wintry mix of rain, sleet and
:29:01. > :29:04.fairly significant snow. It's likely to cause further travel
:29:04. > :29:10.disruption as it edges its way southwards. If you have plans in
:29:10. > :29:14.the south of England, tune into your BBC local radio to find out
:29:14. > :29:17.the latest. In northern England, 200 metres
:29:17. > :29:20.plus is where the heaviest snow is likely to be.
:29:20. > :29:25.Poor visibility and tricky conditions on the roads, so bear
:29:25. > :29:29.that in mind. Things improve in southern Scotland. Feeling colder
:29:29. > :29:32.with the winds. A few showers around and the snow level creeps up
:29:32. > :29:37.a little this afternoon. In Northern Ireland, it's mostly rain
:29:37. > :29:44.showers, but it's cold and windy with a bit of sunshine to be found
:29:44. > :29:48.in-between the showers. The showers affecting the North Wales area.
:29:48. > :29:51.Mostly rain showers down towards the far south-west. A bit of
:29:51. > :29:55.sunshine in-between. Again, feeling much colder in the very strong
:29:55. > :29:59.winds. Things tend to dry up towards the south-eastern corner.
:29:59. > :30:04.Sunshine to be found and only four or five degrees, so colder than
:30:04. > :30:08.yesterday, particularly in the wind. Staying windy in the south and west
:30:08. > :30:13.tonight. Wet snow moves its way through East Anglia for a time but
:30:13. > :30:19.towards dawn, ice will be the main problem with temperatures close to
:30:19. > :30:23.or below freezing. Tomorrow, the wind's coming from the Arctic, a
:30:23. > :30:28.genuine Arctic blast with a significant wind chill factor with
:30:28. > :30:32.cold air spreading down across the UK. Bringing showers early on in
:30:32. > :30:37.the day. They become confined to eastern Scotland and eastern
:30:37. > :30:41.England later in the day. It will be a cold day at four or five or
:30:41. > :30:45.six, but add on the strength of the wind and it will feel like it's
:30:45. > :30:49.round about freezing or subzero. The winds gradually ease down on
:30:49. > :30:56.Wednesday night, particularly out towards the west and it will turn
:30:56. > :30:59.cold. On Thursday, some improvements with
:30:59. > :31:03.lighter winds. Still cold and wintry showers out towards the east.
:31:03. > :31:07.Later in the day, the weather front is moving into the cold air and we
:31:07. > :31:11.may see a bit of snow on the leading edge of that.
:31:11. > :31:14.Thank you very much. A reminder of our top story. MPs have begun
:31:14. > :31:19.debating whether to introduce same- sex marriage in England and Wales.
:31:19. > :31:22.More than 100 Conservative MPs are expected to oppose the Bill in a